Dear mommamia
I am sorry ro say that the statistics say otherwise. According to the book i mentioned above, there has been a huge increase in the number of girls who have been prevented from being born. In some coumtries in Asia, terminated pregnancies outnumber live births by over 2.5x, much of that to do with sex selection.
It is a huge problem in a world with so many huger, close problems, that we rarely have time to focus on it.